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The Department of Dutch and South African Studies, part of the School of English of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, seeks to teach and promote an understanding of the languages, cultures and literatures of the Netherlands, Belgium and the Republic of South Africa. The department offers B.A. and M.A. programmes in Dutch Studies and in the undergraduate programme, Europe's only South African Studies.

The department also hosts the scholarly journal Werkwinkel: Journal of Low Countries and South African Studies, which has been included in the standardized register of academic journals. It has been placed on the ministerial register with an overall score of 6 points (out of a possible 6).

Departmental interest areas involve the Dutch, Flemish and South-African literatures of the nineteenth and twentieth century, cultural studies of the Low Countries and South Africa, the language policy and planning in South Africa, postcolonial representations of South Africa in Dutch and Polish literature, social-political and other contextual aspects of literature and art, the historiography and theory of European avant-garde and modernism and the language situation in Belgium.